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DATE 2p’ bIC -1, -2 € areunrnenennnennenssnitanarenen Ten Synopsis: To request case be opened and assigned. ty 41 7 Details: From March 2005 through February 2006, the Palm 2 Beach County Police Department conducted an, “investigation involving the Subjects Jeffrey RPpstein, DOB pop] C—“‘“‘(‘(S(OUUCOWUOOBYL WSTA - CHILD PROSTITUTION pC Epsteind. ET CINS™ Bo :=2 bo. <1; =o BiG ei, =2 b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 03956-17 To: Miami From: 2... : Re: 31E-MM, 07/24/2006 b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7c -1, -3 It is requested by SAL that the above captioned case be opened and assigned. b6 -2 b7C -2 +¢ | 2 03956-18 @ bable Cause Affidavit & Palm Beach Police Department Agency ORI# FLO 500600 Police Case#: 05-368 (1) Defendant: Jeffrey Epstein Race/Sex: White Male | DOB: » \ Charges: bé -1 b7Cc -1 From March 15, 2005, through February 2006, the Palm Beach Police Department conducted a sexual battery investigation involving Jeffrey Epstein, OO EE SS OEE aa) Palm Beach b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 The facts, as reported, are as follows: b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 b7D -1 b3 -1 | b6 -1, -3 The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed State of Florida a i ai before me this 1 day of May, 2006 by County of Palm Beach Det] who is personally known to me. Be xd b7C -4 ee ee Signature/Arresting Officer Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S. 117.10) Date: 05/01/2006 Page of 22 6-19 0295 3/E-um - (0902S Dbabie Cause Affidavit @ Palm Beach Police Department as Agency ORIT# FLO 500600 b6 <1, <3 b7c -1, -3 On November 21,2005 Linterviewed) tte he was b3 -1 b6 -1, -3, -5 b7c -1, -3, -5 b7D -1 On January 4, 2006 I interviewed another former houseman, Mr Alfredo Rodriguez. During a sworn taped statement, Mr. Rodriguez stated he was employed by Jeffrey Epstein for approximately six months, from November 2004 through May of 2005. His responsibilities as house manager included being the butler, chauffeur. chef, houseman. run errands for Epstein and provide for Epstein's guests. I asked Rodriguez about BS. =1 De-S1 5. 5 Bi. =1 5. = Din =1 0 The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed State of Florida before me this 1" day of May, 2006 by County of Palm Beach Def who is personally known to me. b6 -4 b7c -4 Signature/Arresting Officer Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S. 117.10) Date: 05/01/2006 Page of 22 03956-39 Doadie Cause Affidavit ® — Palm Beach Police Department ahs Agency ORI# FLO 500600 | a b3 -1 b6 -l, -3 b7iC -1, -3 b7D -1 b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 bic -1, -3 b7D -Z b7E -1 b6 -1 b7C -1 b7D -2 dD7TE -1 Therefore, as Jeffrey Epstein, who at the time of these incidents was The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed before me this 1* day of May, 2006 by Det{| who is personally known to me. seg b7c -4 Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S, 117.10) Page of 22 b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 State of Florida County of Palm Beach Siguature/Arresting Officer Date: 05/01/2006 03956-40 B- 2908Q-HW -2K Mystery money man faces soliciting charge By NICOLE JANOK Paim Beach Post Staff Writer A part-time Palm Beacher who has socialized with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey was jailed early Sunday with accused drug dealers, drunken drivers and wife beaters after he was charged with soliciting a prostt- tute Manhattan money manager Jeffrey Epstein, 53, was picked up at his home on El Brillo Way at 1:45 am. He was released hours later on $3,000 bond. Epstein was indicted last week by a state grand jury, according to state at- torney’s spokesman Mike Edmondson. Despite Epstein’s arrest, the indictment containing the allegations remained sealed Sunday and Edmondson provid- ed no details. Unlike most accused johns, Epstein was charged with a third-degree felony instead of a misdemeanor. Under state law, a solicitation charge usually is ele- vated to a more-serious felony when the defendant has at least two solicitation - om * * ems — ‘Mysterious billionaire’ has been on probation Pm SOLICITING fom 1B lished reports. National magazines have described him as a “mysterious billion- aire” who lives in a 45,000- square-foot New York City mansion. He has been in trouble before. In 1993, he and two other defendants were charged in federal court with three counts of postal larceny and theft and one count of property theft. Epstein plead guilty to a single charge of conspiring to steal U.S. Treasury checks from resi- dential. mailboxes and re- ceived 5 years’ probation. The remaining charges were dropped. Since then, Epstein’s name has turned up in New York City’s tabloids. The New York Post noted he flew Pres- ident Clinton and Kevin Spacey to Africa on his pri- vate Boeing 727. In 2003, the paper dubbed him one of the Big Apple’s “top studs,” In 2004, Epstein bid against Trump for a 43,000- square foot Palm Beach es- tate once owned by health- care magnate Abe Gosman. Trump topped Epstein with a $41.35 million bid. Staff Researcher Angelica Cortez contributed to this story, © nicole_janok@pbpost.com —se ee le _—_— convictions. However, checks of court records here and in New York Sunday turned up no such convictions. Epstein could no’ be reached. F1- mondson said he was being represente i by West Palm Beach attorney Jack Goldberg, who declined comment. Epstein is the president of J Epstein & Co., a money management company based in Manhattan that caters to ultra- wealthy clientele, according to pub See SOLICITING, 6B > ‘Huixeapuy WO Bunytwans COOSOL "WIAA LE UOPONISSE|D AIA Jeffrey Epstein Indictment related to prostitution. JO 13}BBYD abieyo Buiyayos sears ‘SULL uew Asuous Aaysapy "UOnIPA ‘eq Ja ‘yorudg Wied sen SOd YORag WIEd ay / a9 ‘a 900¢/¥220 (mojag soeds ul Buiddiy5 JunoW (18-8-S ‘ASY) OSE-qy ‘ (Cayejs pue Ayo adedsmou jo elweu ‘abed ayeoipuy) 03956-63 G- 2 0g017 WA-BIC 4B THE PALM BEACH POST —s« Palm Beach police will report today about their prostitution probe of the money manager. By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Billionaire money manager and Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey Epstein solicited or procured prostitutes three or more times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year, according to an in- dictment charging him with felony so- licitation of prostitution. Epstein, 53, was booked at the Palm Beach County jail at 1:45 a.m. Sunday. He was released on $3,000 bond. Epstein’s case is unusual in that suspected prostitution johns are usually charged with a misdemeanor, and. even a felony charge is typically made in a criminal information — an alternative to an indictment charging a person with (80 ee em. ss TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2006 Indictment: Billionaire solicited 3 times the commission of a crime. His attorney, Jack Goldberger, declined fo discuss the charge. State attorney’s of fice spokesman Mike Edmondson also had little to say. “Generally speak- ing, there is a case that has a number of different aspects to it,” Edmondson said of a_ prostitution- related charge being submitted fo a grand jury. “We first became aware of the case months ago by Palm Beach police.” Prosecutors.and police worked to- gether to bring the case to the grand jury, he said. Paim Beach police confirmed that and said the department will release a report today regarding its investigation. Epstein has owned a five-bedroom, 7%bath, 7,234-square-foot home with a pool and a boat dock on the Intracoastal Epstein -_— Waterway since 1990, according to property records. A man answering the door there Monday said that Epstein wasn’t home. A Cadillac Escalade reg- istered to him was parked in the drive- way, which is flanked by two massive gargovies. . Epstein sued Preperty Appraiser Gary Nikelits in 2001, contending that the assessrntut of his home exceeded its fair :narket value. He dismissed his lawsuit in December 2002. A profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair magazine said he owns what are be lieved to be the lergest private iomes in Manhattan — 31,000 square test ~ and in New Mexico — a 7,500-acre ranch. Those are in addition to his 70-acre is- land in the U.S. Virgin Islands and fleet - of aircraft. 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An indictment Epstein charging Epstein, 53, was unsealed Monday, charging him with one | count of felony solicitation of prostitution. Palm Beach police thought there was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. _ Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry with State Attorney Barry Krischer’s han- dling of the case that he wrote a memo See EPSTEIN, 5B > 0365665 3IE- NX -]08062-G © Ws C THE PALM BEACH POST WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2006 Police kept watch on home, airport, sifted through trash Pm EPSTEIN fom 1B suggesting the county’s top prosecutor disqualify himself. “I must urge you to ex- amine the unusual course that your office’s handling of this tter has taken and consider ood and sufficient reason exists to require your dis- qualification from the prose- cution of these cases,” Reiter wrote in a May 1 memo to Krischer. While not commenting specifically on the Epstein case, Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the state at- torney, said his office pre sents cases other than mur- ders to a grand jury when there are questions about witnesses’ credibility and their ability to testify. _ By the nature of their jobs, police officers look at evi “ance from a “one-sided per- \.wective,” Edmondson said. “A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fashion,” weighing the veracity of wit- nesses and how they may fare under defense attorneys’ questioning, he said. Epstein’s attommey, Jack Goldberger, said his client committed no crimes. “The reports and state- ments in question refer to false accusations that were not charged because the Palm Beach County state attorney questioned the credibility of the witnesses,” Goldberger said. A county grand jury “found the allegations whoily unsubstantiated and not credible,” and that’s why his client was not charged with sexual activity with minors, he said. | Goldberger said Epstein passed a lie detector test ad- ministered by a reputable ‘ polygraph examiner in which he said he did not know the girls were minors. Also, a search warrant served on Epstein’s home found no evi dence to corroborate the aig allegations, Goldberger said. According to police docu- ments: w A Palm Beach Commt- nity College student said she gave Epstein a massage in the nude, then brought him six girls, ages 14 to 16, for mas- sage and sex-tinged sessions at his home. | MA 27-year-old woman who worked as Epstein’s personal assistant also facili- tated the liaisons, phoning the PBCC student to arrange for girls when Epstein was coming to town. And she es- corted the girls upstairs when they arrived, putting fresh sheets on a massage table and placing massage oils nearby. @ Police took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. They contend that on three occasions, Epstein had sex with the girls. _ The chief's letter See the letter Paim Beach Police Cirlef Michael Reiter wrote to State Attomey Bary Krischer on the Epstein case. PalmBseachPost.com A money manager for the ultra-rich, Epstein was named one of New York’s most eligt ble bachelors in 2003 by The New York Post. He reportedly hobnobs with the likes of former President Clinton, former Harvard University President Lawrence Sum- mers and Donald Trump, and has lavish homes in Manhat- tan, New Mexico and the Vir- ‘gin Islands. He has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Dem- ocratic Party candidates and organizations, including Sen. John Kerry’s presidential bid, and the Senate campaigns of Joe Lieberman, Hi Clin- ton, Christopher Dodd and Charies Schumer. © | - Goldberger is one of five attorneys Epstein has re tained since he hecame the subject of an investigation, Edmondson said. Among the others: Alan Dershowitz, the wellknown Harvard law pro- fessor and author, who is a friend of Epstein. Dershowitz could not be reached for comment. Police said the woman who enlisted young girls for Epstein was Haley Robson,’ 20, of Royal Palm Beach. Robson has worked at an OF ive Garden . restaurant in Wellingina and said she was a journalism mater at Palm Beach Commrunkty College when she was questioned by police last October. She has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for comment. Robson said she met Ep- stein when, at age 17, a friend asked her if she would like to make money giving him a massage. She said she was driven to his five-bedroom, 7%bath home on the Intra coastal Waterway, then es- corted upstairs to a bedroom with a massage table and oils. Epstein and Robson were both naked during the mas- sage, she said, but when he grabbed her buttocks, she said she didn’t want to be touched. Epstein said he’d pay her to bring him more girls —the younger the better, Robson toid police. When she tried once to bring a 23-year-old woman to him, Epstein said she was too old, Robson said. Robson, who has not been charged in the case, said she eventually brought six girls to Epstein who were paid $200 each time, Robson said. “I’m like a Heidi Fleiss,” police quoted her as saying. The girls knew what to expect when they were taken to Ep stein’s home, Robson said. Give a massage — maybe na- ked — and allow some touching. One 14-year-old girl Rob- son took to meet Epstein led police to start the investiga- tion of him in March 2005. A relative of the girl called to say she thought the child had re- cently engaged in sex with a Palm Beach man. The girl then got into a fight with a classmate who accused her of being a prostitute, and she couldn't explain why she had $300 in her purse. The girl gave police this. account of her meeting with Epstein: She accompanied Robson and a second girl to Epstein’s house on a Sunday in Febru- ary 2005. Once there, a worm- an she thought was Epstein’s assistant told the girl to follow her upstairs to a room featur- ing amural ofa naked woman, several photographs of naked women on a shelf, a hot pink and green sofa and a massage table. She stripped to her bra and panties and gave him a massage. Epstein gave the 14-year- old $300 and she and the oth- er girls left, she said. She said Robson told her that Epstein paid her $200 that day. Other girls told similar stories. In most accounts, Epstein’s personal assistant at the time, Sarah Kellen, now 27, escorted the girls to Ep stein’s bedroom. Kellen, whose most re- cent known address is in North Carolina, has not been charged in the case. Palm Beach police often conducted surveillance of Epstein’s home, and at Palm Beach International Airport to see if his private jet was there, so they would know when he was in town. Police also arranged repeatedly to | receive his trash from Palm Beach sanitation workers, collecting papers with names and phone numbers, sex toys and female hygiene products. _ One note stated that a fe- male could not come over at 7 p.m. because of soccer. An- other said a girl had to work Sunday — “Monday after school?” And still another note contained the work hours of a girl, saying she leaves school at 11:30 a.m. and would come over the next day at 10:30 a.m. Only three months before the police department probe began, Epstein donated $90,000 to the department for the purchase of a firearms simulator, said Jane Struder, town finance director. The purchase was never made.- The money was returned to Epstein on Monday, she said. Staff writers Andrew Marra and Tim O’Methta and staff re- searcher Angelica Cortez con- tributed to this story. @ iarry_keller@pbpast.com wI3956-66 .. . FD.350 (Rev. 5-8-81) + ~ . Department probe of Ep . charging Epstein because Mount Clipping in Space Below) Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls By LARRY KELLER Patm Beach Post Staff Writer Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office and pro- vided damaging information about teen- . age girls who say they gave his client, Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, sexually charged massages, according to police reports. The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed Epstein to have no — criminal record. His current attorney de- nies this happened. : And the documents also reveal that the father of at least one girl complained that private investigators aggressively fol lowed his car, photographed his home and chased off visitors. Police also talked to somebody who said she - was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police stein. The state attorney’s office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand jury this month rather than directly Epstein: His former attomey agreed to a of concerns about the Plea bargain, | girls’ credibility. The Police say. grand jury indicted Ep stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penaity of five years in prison. Police believed there was probable cause fo charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and jewd and lascivious molesta- tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. . (Indicate page, name of hewspaper, city and state.) 1B, 7B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Bech, FL Date: 7/29/2006 Edition: Title: Police say fawyer tried fo discredit teenage girls, Character or Classification: 31E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM Indexing: The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was postponed after Dershowitz pro- duced information gleaned from the Web sife myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective Joseph Re- carey. Haley Robson, a 20-year-old Royal Palm Beach woman. who told police she recruited girls for Epstein, also is profiled on myspace.com. Her page includes pho- tos of her and her friends, including one See EPSTEIN, 7B > w. TE es a 03958-6567 AlE-NM -\09062- Polygraph shows he didn’t know girls’ ages, lawyer says > EPSTEIN fom 1B using the name “Pimpin’ Made EZ.” Robson, who was not charged in the case, is a potential prosecution wit- ness. According to Recarey, prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek offered Epstein attorneys Dershowitz. and Guy Fronstin a plea deal in April. Fronstin, after speaking with Epstein, accepted the deal, in which Epstein would plead guilty to one count of aggravated as- sault with intent to commit a felony, be placed on five years probation and have no criminal record. The deal al- so called: for Epstein to sub- mit to a psychiatric and sex- ual evaluation and have no unsupervised visits with mi- nors, according to Recarey’s report. The plea bargain was made in connection with only one of the five alleged vic- tims, the report states. Fronstin — who declined to comment on the case — ‘was subsequently fired and veteran defense attorney Jack Goldberger was hired. He denies there was any agreement by any of Ep- stein’s attorneys to a plea deal. “We absolutely did not agree to a plea in this case,” he said. Neither Belohlavek nor a_ state attorney’s spokesman could be reached for comment. The parent or parents of alleged victims who com- plained of being harassed by private investigators provid- ed license tag numbers of two of the men. Police found the vehicles were registered to a private eye in West Palm Beach and another in Jupiter, according to Recarey’s re- port. “I have no knowledge of it,” defense attorney Gold- berger said. The report also says a woman connected to the Ep- stein case was contacted by somebody who was still in touch with Epstein. That person told her she would be compensated if she didn’t cooperate with police, Re- carey’s report says. Those who did talk “will be dealt with,” the woman said she was told. Phone records show the woman talked with the person who allegedly in- timidated her around the time she said, Recarey re- ported. Phone records also show that the person said-to have made the threat then placed a call to Epstein’s personal as- sistant, who in turn called a New York corporation affili- ated with Epstein, the report states. The issue in the Epstein case is not whether females came to his waterfront home, but whether he knew their ages, “He’s never denied girls came to the house,” Gold- berger said. But when Ep stein was given a polygraph test, “he passed on knowl- edge of age,” the attorney said. After the indictment against Epstein was unsealed this week, Police Chief Reiter referred the matter to the FBI. “We've received the re- ferral, and we're reviewing it,” said FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela in Miami. The chief himself has come under attack from Ep- stein’s lawyers and friends in New York, where he has a home. The New York Post quoted Epstein’s prominent New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, as saying his client was indicted only “because of the craziness of the police chief.” Reiter has declined to comment on the case. , Prosecutors have not presented a sex-related case like Epstein’s to a grand jury before, said Mike Edmond- son, spokesman for the state attorney's office. “That’s what you do with a case that falls into a gray area,” he said. The state attorney’s office did not recommend a partic- ular criminal charge on which to indict Epstein, Ed- mondson said. The grand ju- ry was presented with a list of charges from highest to low- est, then deliberated with the prosecutor out of the room, he said. “People are surprised at the grand jury proceeding,” West Palm Beach defense attorney Richard Tendler said. “It’s a way for the pros- ecutor’s office to not take the full responsibility for not fil- ing the (charge), and not do- ing what the Palm Beach Po- lice Department wanted. I think something feil apart with those underage wit- nesses,” Defense attorney Robert Gershman was a prosecutor for six years. “Those girls must have been incredible or untrustworthy, I don’t know,” he said. Other attorneys said Ep- stein’s case raises the issue of whether wealthy, connected defendants like Epstein ~ whose friends include former President Clinton and Donald Trump ~— are treated differently from others. Once he knew he was the subject of a criminal probe, Epstein hired a phalanx of powerful attorneys such as Dershowitz and Lefcourt, who is a past president of the National As- sociation of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Miami lawyer Roy Black — who became nationally known when he successfully defended William Kennedy Smith on a rape charge in Palm Beach — also was in- volved at one point. Said defense attorney Michelle Suskauer: “I think it’s unfortunate the public may get the perception that with power, you may be treated differently than the average Joe.” © lary_keller@phpost.com * a i 03956-68 @ @ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (Rev. 1-31-2003} Precedence: ROUTINE Date: 08/01/2006 ; To: Miami Attn: IMA/PB2 From: Miami PB2/PBCRA Draited By: b3 -1 Pe HL, =2 Case ID #: 31E~MM-108062 (Pesdine} b7c -1, -2 Title: JEHEPREY EPSTEIN; WSTA - CHILD PROSTITUTION Synopsis: To request the opening of sub-files in captioned case. Details: It is requested that the following sub-files be opened Lo assist in document management in captioned case. SUB - SBP to capture subpoena, request. SUB - FF to capture forfeiture related materials. ++ annie BYE- MN - 0660 BP eer oe, 5 mays re FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) @ Mount Clipping in Space Below) 1 . _ (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 20B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, FL Date 8/4/2006 Edition Title: He was over 50 And they were girls Character or Classification: 31E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: He was over 50. And they were girls If the women whom Palm Beach police say a part-time town resident invited to his home and paid for sex acts were, in fact, women, the solicitation charge against Jeffrey Epstein might feel more sufficient. But, according to police records, they weren't. He was over 50. And they were girls. count for some- . 6. = tTyearold girs = -year-old girls, a That should = thing — the dit , ference between Elisa prostitution and Cramer = =—S pedophilia. So, it is baffling that Mr. Epstein, who was indicted last month by a grand jury on one felony count of solicitation of pros- titution, has not been charged, as Palm Beach police strenuously urged, with unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Conviction of crimes against mi- nors would mean steeper penalties than the maximum five-year prison term Mr. Epstein faces if convicted of the single count of felony solicita- tion. It also would help carry a mes- sage of intolerance to perverts who prey on girls. Prosecutors did not pursue charg- es against Mr Epstein reflecting the age of the victims because they assumed a jury would view the girls not as victims but as promiscuous, untrustworthy, willing participants. The presumption is offensive. Mr Epstein, a 53-yearold Man- hattan money manager who has hired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and defense attor. ney Jack Goldberger, has denied knowing how old the girls were. Jury should have decided if Epstein 1s a pedophile. But police interviews with five alleged victims and If witnesses under oath, as well as phone mes- sages, a high school transcript and other items that police found from searching Mr Epstein’s trash and 7,234-square-foot waterfront home, provide evidence that he knew the girls were teenagers. One girl couldn’t show up when Mr. Epstein wanted because she had soccer, Another time, Mr. Ep- stein had to wait for his “massage” session because the girl he wanted was still in class. Why didn’t State Attorney Barry Krischer let a jury decide whether to believe the teenagers — in- cluding a 16-year-old who went to Mr. Epstein’s house to “work” in December 2004 after being asked whether she needed to make money for Christmas gifts? Prosecutors gave greater weight to the details Mr. Dershowitz pro- vided about the girls in an apparent effort to assail their character. Mr. Dershowitz pointed out to prosecu- tors that some of the teenagers had talked on myspace.com about mari- juana and alcohol use. The 20-yearold Royal Palm Beach woman who told police she recruited girls for Mr Epstein has a Web page on myspace.com that features one girl using the name “Pimpin’ Made EZ.” Although no charges of witness tampering have been filed, the par ents of at least one of the teenage victims complained to police of be- ing followed and intimidated by two men. Police determined that their vehicles were registered to two pri- vate investigators. Mr Goldberger denied knowing anything about it. Police also note in their reports that the state attorneys office of- fered Mr. Epstein a plea deal that would have placed him on proba- tion for five years, allowing him ultimately to walk away with no criminal record at all. I asked Mr. Krischer’s spokes- man, Mike Edmondson, why the case was referred to a srand jury in- ‘stead of Mr. Epstein being charged and facing a trial before a jury. And shouldn't the victims’ credibility be a factor to determine whether a crime’s been committed, not wheth- er a jury will convict? (After all, as Mr. Goldberger told The Palm Beach Post of Mr. Epstein, “He’s never de- nied girls came to the house.”) Especially, I asked Mr. Edmond- son to explain: Why shouldn’t the public look at this case and think there are two kinds of justice — one for the wealthy and one for the rest of us? Mr. Edmondson said he could not comment on the case because it ~ is active, but on the latter point, he offered, for the sake of “philosophi- cal debate”: “Whether wealth buysa > different standard of justice across the country ... the answer to that would, of course, be yes.” But in this case, he said, “regard- less of the battery of attorneys, the outcome would be the same. Every issue that was debated in public was debated in our office before this case went to the grand jury.” In this case, it is not the victims’ + credibility but the state attorney's that deserves questioning. Elisa Cramer is an editorial writer for The Palm Beach Post. Her e-mail 03 address is elisa_cramer@pbpost.com MM if GUN 109002 6-70 q eee re ee *£p.350 (Rev. 5-8-81) ° Mount Clioping in Space Below) Expert: Ignorance of age isn't defense in sex cases Sy LARRY KELLER Paim Beach Post Staff Writer Even if Palm Beach mon- ey manager Jeffrey Epstein didn’t know that girls who police say gave him sexual massages at his Intracoastal home were under the legal age, that alone wouldn’t have exempted him from criminal charges of sexual activity with minors. “Ignorance is not a valid defense,” said Bob Dekle, a legal skills professor who was a Lake City prosecutor for nearly 30 years, half of that time specializing in sex crimes against children. “There is no knowledge element as far as the age Is concerned,” Dekle said. After an 11-month investi- gation, Palm Beach police said there was probable cause to charge Epstein, 53, with unlawful sex acts with a minor retumbaeana - tidns since he ° was charged with soliciting minors. and lewd and jascivious mo- lestation. They contend that Epstein — friend of the rich and famous and financial pa- tron of Democratic Party or- ganizations and candidates — committed those acts with five underage girls. In the past week, New York Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer has returned about $50,000 in campaign contrt- butions he received from Ep- stein, and Mark Green, a candidate to replace Spitzer in See EPSTEIN, 5B Epsteinit "hi: - polidckis aye 3/E-UN — (08062- I {indicate page, name of newspaper, city and staie.} 1B /58 / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, FL Daie: 8/5/2006 Edition: Titie: Experil, fgnorance of age isn't defense in sex cases Character Or Ciassification. 31E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM indexing: 03956- 7/6 Lawyer: Juro® often believe Mlults over kids b> EPSTEIN fom IB his current job, has returned $10,000 to him because of the Palm Beach scandal, the New York Daily News has reported. Rather than file charges, the state attorney's office presented the case to a county grand jury. The panel indicted Epstein last week on a single, less serious charge of felony solicitation of pros- titution. The case raised eyebrows because the state attorney’s office rarely, if ever, kicks such charges to a grand jury. And it increases the difficulty of prosecuting child sex abuse cases, especially when the defendant is enormously wealthy and can hire high- priced, top-tier lawyers. At least one of Epstein’s alleged victims told police he knew she was underage when the two of them got naked for massages and sex- ual activity. She was 16 years old at the time and said Ep- stein asked her questions about her high school, ac- cording to police reports. A girl who said she met Epstein when she was 15 said he told her if she told any- body what happened at his house, bad things could hap- pen, the police reports state. Epstein’s youngest al leged victim was 14 when she says she gave him a massage that included some sexual activity. She is now 16. The girl’s father says he doesn’t know whether she told Ep stein her age. “My daughter has kept a lot of what happened from me because of sheer embarrass- ment,” he said. “But she very much looked 14. Any prudent man would have had second thoughts about that.” Defense attorney Jack Goldberger maintains that not only did Epstein pass a polygraph test showing he did not know the girls were minors, but their stories weren't credible. The state attorney’s office also implied that their credibility was an issue when it decided not to charge Epstein directly, but instead give the case to the grand jury. “A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fash- ion,” a state attorney’s spokesman said last week. Epstein hired Harvard law Professor Alan Der- showitz when. he became aware he was under investi- _ gation, and Dershowitz gave prosecutors information that some of the alleged victims had spoke of using alcohol and marijuana on a popular Web site, according to a Palm Beach police report. Prosecutors typically consider two things in decid- ing whether to charge some- body with sex-related offens- es against minors — whether there is sufficient evidence and whether there is a public oh in doing so, Dekle said. . that will Child sex abuse cases often are difficult to prosecute, an attorney says. Iftwo teens are in a sexual relationship and the boy turns 18 before the girl, he could be charged with a sex crime if the sex continues, There would be no public in- terest in pursuing that, Dekle said. But where there is a large gap in ages — and especially in cases of teachers with stu- dents — there is a public in- terest in prosecuting, he said. Likewise if the accused has a track record of sex with mi- nors. Still there is a “universal constant” in prosecuting these cases, Dekle said. Men who exploit underage chil- dren for sex often carefully choose their victims in ways ill minimize the risk to them, he said. Victims usually are from a lower social status, and they may suffer from psychologi- cal problems, Dekle said. ‘Lots of child sexual abuse victims have been vic- timized by multiple people over a period of time. Then the act of abuse produces behavior in the victims that further damages thet credi- bility.” Examples include promiscuous behavior and drug abuse. Some of the alleged vic- tims in the Epstein case re- turned to his home multiple times for the massage ses- sions and the $200 to $300 he typically paid them per visit. “That would be a definite ‘problem for the prosecutor,” said Betty Resch, who prose- cuted crimes against children in Palm Beach County for five years and now is in private practice in Lake Worth. “The victim becomes less sympathetic” to a jury, Resch said. “But she’s a victim nev- ertheless. She’s a kid.” Most men charged with sex crimes against minors look normal, Dekle said. A jury expecting to see @ mon- ster seldom will. And the vic- tims’ ages work against them and in favor of the defendant in a trial, Dekle said. If a child and an adult tell different stories and both swear they're telling the truth, adult jurors are more likely to believe the adult, Dekle said. “You have all these things working against you ina child sex abuse case. Prosecutors normally try to be very care- ful in filing those cases be cause they know what they’re getting into. There is no such thing as an iron-clad child sexual abuse case.” © lany_keller@pbpostcom Q3956-//7 C)-€9 030! -WH -DIS Palm Beach chief focus of fire in Epstein case 18, and a daughter, 14. The. Defendant's lawyers take him on; be slams state attorney By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer In the case of Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Ep- stein, itseems, at times, asif two men are accused of wrongdoing: Epstein and Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter. Epstein, 53, was indici- ed lastmonth on.a charge of felony solicitation of prosti- tution solely because of Re- iter’s “craziness,” one of Epstein’s lawyers said. His department disseminated “a distorted view of the case” and behaved in a fecal pared _ oe grand jury didn’t indict Ep- stein on fhe charges it sought, another Epstein lawyer complained. To hear the Epstein camp tell it, Reifer, 48, is a loose cannon better suited to be the sheriff of Mayber- ry. They whisper that he’s embroiled in a messy di- vorce. Reiter did in fact file for divorce from his wife, Jill, last year, after 24 years of marriage. They have a son, aod Ga ‘Bulxepul couple is scheduled to go to mediation Wednesday. Nothing in the court file suggests their split is par- ticularly ugly. Reiter Incurred the wrath of the Epstein camp as well as the state attor- See REITER, 7B - - mg wg © =" cr = = ZT wn s+ . 32638 a = Si S28 8 af 7 ° Q5 = te oD — —™ 4} 2m > ¢ + 3 = = = > ® os fm © 3 & e = =o -, nt - & Ss o fh a3 Ce ah ‘UO}IPA 97eq JA ‘YoReg Wed IS9/V 1SOq YORag Wied SUL /AL/ Al S00c/P L/S (mojeg eseds ul Surddiyy Juno) (‘ayers pure Ayo Uadedsmeu jo sweu ‘obed ayeoipuy} 03956-78 « | in (L8-8-S "A8Y)-0S _-—s —a Colleagues cite chief's professionalism, m» REITER fom IB ney’s office for two reasons. First, he pressed for Epstein to be charged with the more serious crimes of sexual ac- tivity with minors. Second, he slammed State Attorney Bar- ry Krischer in blunt language seldom used by one law- enforcement official con- cerning another because of what he perceived as that of- fice’s mishandling of the case. ‘In a letter to Krischer written May 1, Reiter called’ his actions in the Epstein case “highly unusual.” He added, “Imusturge youto... consider if good and suffi- cient reason exists to require your disqualification from the prosecution of these cases.” In short, Reiter told the county's top prosecutor for the past 13 years that he ought to get off the case. “It -looks like a departure from —— Oe oe professionalism,” Miami- Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said of Reiter’s letter. Following Epstein’s in- dictment, Reiter referred the case to the FBI to determine whether the super-rich, super-connected defendant had violated any federal laws. Reiter won’t discuss the case or the broadsides aimed at him. But others almost uniformly use one word to describe the chief: profes- sional. “I have always been im- pressed by Mike’s profes- sionalism and his leader- ship,” said Rick Lincoln, chief of the Lantana Police Depart- ment and a Palm Beach County cop for 32 years. “The town of Palm Beach has a very professional police department. We all consider Mike to be our peer and a- man of integrity.” Reiter: Fown Manager Peter Elwell says the Paim Beach police chief's well worth his $144,000 sal- ayy. Juno Beach Police Chief H.C. Clark II agreed. Al though he doesn’t know Re- iter well, he has met with him on countywide law enforce- ment issues. “I’ve never seen him lose his cool. I've never seen anything but a profes- sional demeanor from him.” Reiter joined the Palm Beach Police Department in 1981, leaving a $20,000-a-year patrol job at the University of Pittsburgh. His personnel jacket shows consistently ex- cellent job evaluations. Posh Palm Beach is no hotbed of crime, and in his first year on the job, a resi- ———w—— ee — dent confined to his home with a sick child thanked Re iter for delivering afew Cokes to the house. Reiter refused - payment for the beverages. Another resident thanked Reiter for shutting off his car’s headlights in his drive way, saying a valet must have been at fault. Reiter worked everything from road patrol to organized crime, vice and narcotics. And he’s no novice at investi- gations involving the island’s rich and famous. He was the lead detective probing the drug overdose death of David Kennedy in 1984. He also was one of the officers who worked the investigation of William Kennedy Smith, who was charged in 1991 — and later acquitted — with raping a woman at the Kennedy family compound in Palm Beach. Reiter, who has amaster’s degree in human resource integrity development from Palm Beach Atlantic University, al- . so has attended the FBI Na- tional Academy in Quantico, Va., and management cours es at Harvard. He’s been oe tive in countywide interagen- cy law enforcement organizations and has a “top secret” national security clearance. “He has a_ perspective that’s broader than just ad- dressing the needs of the town,” said Town Manager Peter Elwell, who promoted Reiter from assistant chief to chief in March 2001. Reiter makes more than $144,000 as the town’s top cop. Elwell thinks he’s worth it. “He’s very businesslike, very straightforward. He’s not easily agitated or “—/ boyant, He’s about the work,” Elwell said. “I think that his service as chief has been outstanding in five-plus years.” ® lary_keller@pbpast.com 03956-79 a + (L8-9-¢ ‘AeY) OSE-d4 {mojag soeds ul Guiddy5 junopy 22 9 se > 33 _ om ee * 3383 < ‘| ee $529 & Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion at 358 El Brillo Way. 2 r 8 : @ = 2 a8 S sg: §' Ses = Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends 2 of 8 FF : N my = > > and, investigators say, underage girls By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 03956-80 Ts mee ¢ . | Jeffrey Epstein has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates’ campaigns, including John Kerry’s presidential bid, the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids ona =~ ©. aaa: _ a WINGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion. Inside, hidden cameras trolled two rooms, while the girls came and went. For the police detectives who sifted through the gar- bage outside and kept records of visitors, it was the lair of a troubling target. Epstein, one of the most mysterious of the country’s megatich, was known as much for his secrecy as for his love of fine things: mag- nificent homes, private jets, beautiful women, friendships with the world’s elite. But at Palm Beach police headquarters, he was be coming known for something om .- else: the regular arrival of teenage girls he hired to give him massages and, police say, perform sexual favors. Epstein was different from most sexual abuse sus- pects; he was far more pow- erful. He counted among his friends former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, along with some of the most prominent legal, scientific and business miuinds in the country. When detectives started See EPSTEIN, 6A > ome ‘ Pil ey Epstein’s mysterious Iifestyle began to unravel after claims of sexua! activity with minors. 03956-81 . et RA a errr ptt a oo mpeererare: ft — et hel RE ge All Tn SE tt Nar m= A a ee ee A A, le a - A life of luxury and secrecy = a 2 > ° rate, T+ TINA FINEBERG/The Associated Press Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse dominates a block on the Upper East Side. Thought to be the fargest private residence in Manhattan, it is reported +o fave closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt faiien snow. —_— + the gn me! aS ter openn Min o— 2 Ae - wae we Merle A A mm a i ne Powerful legal team . * stymies detectives o/ | @ ie — OO ET ge Ee Py —— were - + | Women in his life a et ag ie a ee 6 eh dye, CPP or Ghislaine Maxwell, a ‘I'm fike a Heidi fixture at elite parties Fleiss,’ Haley Robson and the intensely told police she took at | private daughter of a least six girls to visit media tycoon, dated Epstein, all between the | | Epstein in the 1990s, ages of 14 and 16. i PalmBeachPost.com | ‘ Read previous stories on the Epstein investigation. aye ne pte Sees rae - EPSTEIN jrom IA asking questions and teenage girls started talking, a wave of legal resistance followed. If Palm Beach police didn’t know quite who Jeffrey Epstein was, they found out soon enough. Epstein, now 53, was a quintes- sential man of mystery. He amassed his fortune and friends quietly, always in the background as he navigated New York high society. When he first attracted notice in the early 1990s, it was on account of the woman he was dating: Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter ofthe late British media tycoon Robert Maxwell. In a lengthy article, headlined *The Mystery of Ghislaine Max- well’s Secret Love,” the British Mail on Sunday tabloid laid out specula- tive stories that the socialite’s beau was a CIA spook, a math teacher, a concert pianist or a corporate head- hunter. “But what is the truth about him?” the newspaper wondered. “Like Maxwell, Epstein is both flamboyant and intensely private.” The media frenzy did not begin in full until a decade later. In Sep- tember 2002, Epstein was flung into the limelight when he flew Clinton and actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private jet. Suddenly everyone wanted to know who Epstein was. New York magazine and Vanity Fair published lengthy profiles. The New York Post listed him as one of the city’s most eligible bachelors and began describing him in its gossip columns with adjectives such as “mysterious” and “reclusive.” Although Epstein gave no inter- views, the broad strokes of his past started to come into focus. Building a life of extravagance He was born blue-collar in 1953, the son of a New York City parks department employee, and raised in Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighbor- hood. He left college without a bachelor’s degree but became a math teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan. The story goes that the father of one of Epstein’s students was so impressed with the man that he put him in touch with a senior partner at Bear Stearns, the global investment bank and securities firm. In 1976, Epstein left Dalton for a job at Bear Stearns. By the early 1980s, he had started J. Epstein and Co. That is when he began making his millions in earnest. Age ee es - Litfle is known or said about © Epstein’s business except this: He manages money for the extremely weal accounts only of $1 billion or great- . er. It has been estimated he has : roughly 15 clients, but their identi- - ties are the subject of only specula- tion. All except for one: Leslie Wex- ner, founder of The Limited retail ‘ chain and a former Palm Beacher Fae a, iy, AN til es Bo who is said to have been a mentor to Epstein. Wexner sold Epstein one of his most lavish residences: a massive townhouse that dominates a block on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It is reported to have, among its finer features, closed-circuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt away fallen snow. That townhouse, thought to be the largest private residence in Manhattan, is only a piece of the extravagant world Epstein built over time. In New Mexico, he constructed a 27,000-square-foot hilltop mansion ona 10,000-acre ranch outside Santa Fe. Many believed itto be the largest home in the state. ‘ In Palm Beach, he bought a waterfront home on El Brillo Way. And he owns a 100-acre private island in the Virgin Islands. Perhaps as remarkable as his lavish homes is his extensive net- work of friends and associates at the highest echelons of power. This includes not only socialites but also business tycoons, media moguls, politicians, royalty and Nobel Prize- * * winning scientists whose research ‘he often funds. “Just like other people collect art, he collects scientists,” said Martin Nowak, who directs the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University and was reportedly the recipient of a $30 © research donation from , million Epstein. Epstein is said to have befriended former Harvard Prest dent Larry Summers, prominent law | Professor Alan Dershowitz, Donald § Trump and New York Daily News i Publisher Mort Zuckerman. And yet he managed for decades | to maintain a low profile. He avoids ¢ eating out and was rarely photo- | grephed. thy. He is said to handle | “The odd thing is I never met him,” said Dominick Dunne, the famous chronicler of the trials and tribulations of the very rich. “I wasn’t even aware of him,” except for a Vanity Fair article. Epstein’s friendship with Clinton has attracted the most attention. Epstein met Clinton as early as 1995, when he paid tens of thou- sands of dollars to join him at an intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach. But from all appearances, they did not become close friends until after Clinton left the Oval Office and moved to New York. Epstein has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates’ campaigns, including John Kerry’s presidential bid, the reelection campaign of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and the Senate bids of Joe Lieberman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christopher Dodd and Charles Schumer. Powerful friends and enemies A Vanity Fair profile found cracks in the veneer of Epstein’s life story. The 2003 article said he left Bear Stearns in the wake of a federal probe and a possible Securities and Exchange Commission violation. It also pointed out that Citibank once sued him for defaulting on a $20 million loan. The article suggested that one of his business mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after “bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American histo- ry. | As he amassed his wealth, Epstein made enemies in disputes both large and small. He sued the man who in 1990 sold him his multimillion-dollar Palm Beach home over a dispute about less than $16,000 in furnishings. 03956-83 ' TE ee YO OO a ; ’; ¥* \mer friend claimed Epstein 2,e-